Organizational Learning

Course objectives

• This course aims at exploring the different ways in which organizations learn from past experiences and change accordingly.
• This course will provide students with the relevant knowledge on how organizations can learn from the past and how organizational members can be convinced to support necessary changes rather than resist them.

Course description
The course consists of the presentation of concepts of organizational learning and the discussion of practical cases. Several different approaches to organizational learning and change, as well as considerations concerning the management of employee issues during change processes will be discussed. The course will also discuss an approach to the management of subsidiaries in different countries. Every single approach will be placed in practical context by discussing case studies or videos that represent practical examples of the approaches that have been discussed before.

Learning methods
The course basically consists of lectures on the theoretical foundations and discussion of business cases. The discussion of business cases will be followed by assignments on these cases that students have to solve at home. These two types of classes alternate.

Attendance
Attendance is of course appreciated, but not required

Examination information
The grading system will be as follows:

• Assignments on business cases: 40%
• Exam: 60%

• All materials will be provided.
• One major source: March, J.G 1994: A primer on decision making. How decisions happen. New York: The free press Chapter 2